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US 12,568,160 · App. 18/531,605 · Granted Mar 3, 2026

Scalable leadership election in a multi-processing computing environment

Inventors: Karan Gupta (San Jose, CA); Pavan Kumar Konka (Milpitas, CA); Parthasarathy Ramachandran (Palo Alto, CA); Arun Olappamanna Vasudevan (Kirkland, WA); Andrey Alexseyevich Pyatkov (Seattle, CA)
Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.
H04L69/40H04L67/10H04L47/70
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Patent No.
US 12,568,160
App. No.
18/531,605
Filed
Dec 6, 2023
Granted
Mar 3, 2026
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2441
USPC
709/226
Abstract

A scalable multi-cluster resource sharing facility. A global witness process runs on a first computing platform that communicates over one or more networks to any number of nodes situated over two or more clusters. The global witness process listens on the network for occurrences of leadership and/or resource requests from nodes of different clusters. The global witness processes a request by retrieving a resource request and a respective last known state value, comparing the last known state value to a global stored state value, then storing a new state value when the respective last known state value is equal to the stored state value. Any number of contemporaneous requests can be processed by the global witness process, however only one request can be granted. The other requestors each receive a rejection of their resource request when their proffered last known state value is not equal to the stored state value.

Claims (44)

1 . A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause a set of acts comprising:

maintaining a service that implements a global witness function accessible over a network using a witness application programming interface (API), wherein the service is accessible by multiple nodes;

instantiating a process on multiple nodes for interfacing with the service using the witness API, wherein the service is accessible over the network by the multiple nodes;

managing, by the service, ownership of a resource shared by at least two of the multiple nodes using a database having at least resource and leader information;

sending an affirmative acknowledgement to a first node of the multiple nodes to identify a single owner of the resource;

sending a negative acknowledgement to a second node of the multiple nodes, wherein the second node becomes a follower in response to the negative acknowledgement; and

wherein the second node performs a liveness measure check.

2 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the resource to be accessed is a leadership relationship.

3 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein ownership of a respective resource is granted to a virtual machine on a node of the multiple nodes.

4 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein ownership of a respective resource is granted to a container operating on a node of the multiple nodes.

5 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein a first node of the multiple nodes is in a different fault domain from a second node of the multiple nodes.

6 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the set of acts further comprise sending a negative acknowledgement to a third node to generate a set of followers comprising at least the second node and the third node.

7 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the liveness measure check is based on at least a periodic liveness signal from the owner of the resource.

8 . The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the leader information is updated using a compare and swap operation.

9 . A method comprising:

maintaining a service that implements a global witness function accessible over a network using a witness application programming interface (API), wherein the service is accessible by multiple nodes;

instantiating a process on multiple nodes for interfacing with the service using the witness API, wherein the service is accessible over the network by the multiple nodes;

managing, by the service, ownership of a resource shared by at least two of the multiple nodes using a database having at least resource and leader information;

sending an affirmative acknowledgement to a first node of the multiple nodes to identify a single owner of the resource;

sending a negative acknowledgement to a second node of the multiple nodes, wherein the second node becomes a follower in response to the negative acknowledgement; and

wherein the second node performs a liveness measure check.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the resource to be accessed is a leadership relationship.

11 . The method of claim 9 , wherein ownership of a respective resource is granted to a virtual machine on a node of the multiple nodes.

12 . The method of claim 9 , wherein ownership of a respective resource is granted to a container operating on a node of the multiple nodes.

13 . The method of claim 9 , wherein a first node of the multiple nodes is in a different fault domain from a second node of the multiple nodes.

14 . The method of claim 9 , further comprises sending a negative acknowledgement to a third node to generate a set of followers comprising at least the second node and the third node.

15 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the liveness measure check is based on at least a periodic liveness signal from the owner of the resource.

16 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the leader information is updated using a compare and swap operation.

17 . A system comprising:

a non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions; and

a processor that executes the sequence of instructions to perform a set of acts comprising:

maintaining a service that implements a global witness function accessible over a network using a witness application programming interface (API), wherein the service is accessible by multiple nodes;

instantiating a process on multiple nodes for interfacing with the service using the witness API, wherein the service is accessible over the network by the multiple nodes;

managing, by the service, ownership of a resource shared by at least two of the multiple nodes using a database having at least resource and leader information;

sending an affirmative acknowledgement to a first node of the multiple nodes to identify a single owner of the resource;

sending a negative acknowledgement to a second node of the multiple nodes, wherein the second node becomes a follower in response to the negative acknowledgement; and

wherein the second node performs a liveness measure check.

18 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the resource to be accessed is a leadership relationship.

19 . The system of claim 17 , wherein ownership of a respective resource is granted to a virtual machine on a node of the multiple nodes.

20 . The system of claim 17 , wherein ownership of a respective resource is granted to a container operating on a node of the multiple nodes.

21 . The system of claim 17 , wherein a first node of the multiple nodes is in a different fault domain from a second node of the multiple nodes.

22 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the set of acts further comprise sending a negative acknowledgement to a third node to generate a set of followers comprising at least the second node and the third node.

23 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the liveness measure check is based on at least a periodic liveness signal from the owner of the resource.

24 . The system of claim 17 , wherein the leader information is updated using a compare and swap operation.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 18, 2025
From: GUPTA, KARAN; KONKA, PAVAN KUMAR; RAMACHANDRAN, PARTHASARATHY; VASUDEVAN, ARUN OLAPPAMANNA; PYATKOV, ANDREY ALEXSEYEVICH
To: NUTANIX, INC.
Reel/Frame 070243/0019 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 13, 2025
From: NUTANIX, INC.
To: BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., AS COLLATERAL AGENT
Reel/Frame 070206/0463 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17646480 · Dec 29, 2021
Continuation 15160347 · May 20, 2016
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